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Ja'Bria Barber

Ja'Bria BarberMT-BC (NICU-MT)
Assistant Professor, Director of Music Therapy
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114 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8782

Research interests: Music Therapy and Hip-Hop Education, a fusion that is deeply rooted in social learning theory and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
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Craig Brandwein (Brandwynne)

Craig BrandweinAssistant Professor, Music Technology
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234 Hulsey Center
(205) 996-0640

Research and Teaching Interests: Education, Composer, Musician, Music Technology, Recording Engineering, Producing, Film Scoring and Sound Design
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Won Cho

This is a photo of faculty member Won Cho.Publicity BioAssociate Professor
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245 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8781

Research and Teaching Interests:  Applied Voice, Opera, Art Song, Oratorio, Musical, Diction for Singers, Acting, Opera Directing, Solo Performance in Opera, Oratorio, Concerts, CD recording, and with orchestra, Research on Korean Folk Songs/Art Songs through CD recording, Lecture-Recital, Concert, and publication
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Kathleen Costello

Kathleen CostelloAssistant Professor
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241 Hulsey Center
(205) 975-0558

Research/Creativity interests: Clarinet, woodwinds, chamber music, orchestral repertoire
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Patrick Evans

Patrick Evans. Photo credit: Marilyn Culler Professor, Chair
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Hulsey Center 240
(205) 934-5828

Research and Teaching Interests: Sacred Music; Voice; Diction; Congregational Song; Global Hymnody; Opera; Music Theatre; Liturgy, Music, Justice, and Gender

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Gene Fambrough

Gene Fambrough. Publicity BioProfessor
Assistant Director of Bands
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203 Hulsey Center
(205) 975-5823

Research and Teaching Interests: Percussion Ensemble, Marching Percussion, Steel Drum Band, Marimba Read more

Denise Gainey

""Publicity BioProfessor, Associate Chair
Coordinator of Music Education 
Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Music
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241 Hulsey Center
(205) 975-0558

Research and Teaching Interests:  Clarinet, Music Education
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Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk

Kristine Hurst WajszczukPublicity BioProfessor of Voice
Associate Dean, Honors College
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224 Honors Hall
(205) 975-1691

Research and Teaching Interests: Performance Anxiety Management, Meditation for Musicians, Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique, Dowland Lute Songs Read more

Howard Irving

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Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8783

Research Interests: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century British Music Criticism and Historiography, Keyboard Works of Joseph Haydn.
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Margaret Jackson

Assistant Professor
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Hulsey Center 231
(205) 934-7376

Research and Teaching Interests: Embodiment, Vocality, Cognition, Popular music studies, 20th century German music history, Critical voice studies, Trauma, Sound studies, Music history pedagogy, Historiography, Neuroscience and music, Music and conflict, Migration studies, Economic anthropology

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Reginald Jackson

reginald jackson
Assistant Professor
Director of the UAB Gospel Choir
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117 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-6155

Research and Teaching Interests: Gospel Choir Clinician, Gospel Keyboard Improvisation, Solo Hammond B-3, Saxophone, Clarinet, African American Music/Gospel, Sacred Music and Piano Performer.
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Yakov Kasman

This is a photo of faculty member Yakov Kasman.Publicity BioDistinguished Professor
Artist-in-Residence
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235 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8942

Research and Teaching Interests:  Classical Piano Music
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Brian Kittredge

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Associate Professor
Director of Choral Activities
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Hulsey Center
(205) 975-2599

Teaching Interests: UAB Choirs
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Cara Morantz

This is a photo of Cara Morantz.Publicity Bio Associate Professor
Assistant Director of Bands
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239 Hulsey Center
(205) 996-5827

Research and Teaching Interests: Instrumental Music Education, Beginning Brass Playing, Singing and Instrumental Performance
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Sean P. Murray

Sean P. Murray. Associate Professor
Director of Bands
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208 Hulsey Center
(205) 975-9589

Research and Teaching Interests: Conducting, Music Education
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Caleb Owenby

Caleb OwenbyAssistant Professor, Assistant Director of Athletic Bands
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231 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-1531
Research interests: Trombone performance, Brass Chamber Music, New Music

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Henry Panion III, PhD

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Photo Credit: Steve WoodUniversity Professor of Music
Director of Music Technology
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Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8780

Research and Teaching Interests: Music Technology, Orchestration, Theory, Conducting, Arranging, and Recording Engineering
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William Price

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238 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-8056

Research and Teaching Interests:  Acoustic and Electroacoustic Music Composition; Postmodern American Music; Temporal and Textual Dissonance; the Music of Frank Zappa, John Zorn, and Tom Waits
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Steven Roberts

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Photo Credit: Razaq KadriAssociate Professor
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Hulsey Center
(205) 934-7376

Teaching Interests: Jazz, Trumpet
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Chris Steele

This is a photo of faculty member Christopher Steele.Publicity BioStaff Pianist
Aural Skills Instructor
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242 Hulsey Center
(205) 964-7568

Research and Teaching Interests: Collaborative Piano, Music Theory and Aural Skills, New Music, the late style of Gabriel Fauré
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Lara Wilson

Lara WilsonVisiting Assistant Professor
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Research and Teaching Interests: Vocal Cross-Training Read more

James Zingara

James Zingara.Publicity Bio Professor
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247 Hulsey Center
(205) 934-7376

Teaching Interests: Trumpet, Conducting
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Virginia (Ginger) Zingara

Virginia (Ginger) ZingaraInstructor
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231 Hulsey Center
(205) 996-7791
Research interests: Music Education, Instrumental Music, Fundamentals of Music, Music Appreciation

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